VIDEO | Jon Shirek's 'Reporter's Notebook' from Aurora

ATLANTA -- 11Alive's Jon Shirek is one of many Gannett reporters and photographers who were part of an expanded news team at KUSA-TV 9News.comin Denver, helping cover the movie theater shootings during the first few days of the unfolding tragedy.

He is back in Atlanta now and shares in this video, which first aired on Wednesday's 11 p.m. newscast, some of what he saw and heard while he was there.